Abstract
AbstractExemplar models are often used in research on multiple-cue judgments to describe the underlying process of participants’ responses. In these experiments, participants are repeatedly presented with the same exemplars (e.g., poisonous bugs) and instructed to memorize these exemplars and their corresponding criterion values (e.g., the toxicity of a bug). We propose that there are two possible outcomes when participants judge one of the already learned exemplars in some later block of the experiment. They either have memorized the exemplar and their respective criterion value and are thus able to recall the exact value, or they have not learned the exemplar and thus have to judge its criterion value, as if it was a new stimulus. We argue that psychologically, the judgments of participants in a multiple-cue judgment experiment are a mixture of these two qualitatively distinct cognitive processes: judgment and recall. However, the cognitive modeling procedure usually applied does not make any distinction between these processes and the data generated by them. We investigated potential effects of disregarding the distinction between these two processes on the parameter recovery and the model fit of one exemplar model. We present results of a simulation as well as the reanalysis of five experimental data sets showing that the current combination of experimental design and modeling procedure can bias parameter estimates, impair their validity, and negatively affect the fit and predictive performance of the model. We also present a latent-mixture extension of the original model as a possible solution to these issues.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous),Developmental and Educational Psychology,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Reference61 articles.
1. Albrecht, R., Hoffmann, J., Pleskac, T., Rieskamp, J., & von Helversen, B. (2019). Competitive retrieval strategy causes multimodal response distributions in multiple-cue judgments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000772
2. Aust, F., & Barth, M. (2020). papaja: create APA manuscripts with R markdown. R package version 0.1.0.9997. Retrieved from https://github.com/crsh/papaja
3. Brehmer, B. (1972). Cue utilization and cue consistency in multiple-cue probability learning. Organizational Behavior and Human Performance, 8(2), 286–296.
4. Bröder, A., Gräf, M., & Kieslich, P.J. (2017). Measuring the relative contributions of rule-based and exemplar-based processes in judgment: validation of a simple model. Judgment and Decision Making, 12(5), 491–506.
5. Bröder, A., & Gräf, M. (2018). Retrieval from memory and cue complexity both trigger exemplar-based processes in judgment. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 30(4), 406–417. https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2018.1444613
Cited by
4 articles.
订阅此论文施引文献
订阅此论文施引文献,注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献,订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献